Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-05-20
BRIEFS.

now hro s,ishoa
some of the farmers have hn'sne"
corn planting :.
new Methodist Church is talked TO
& Eearneysville'
p Hodges got in small supply of
,,r on wednesday-only 500 kegs.
There is promise of an abundant fruit
This vear-judging from the BIOS
sons.
r. HODGES wants 10000 pounds of
=, for which he will pay the highest
price.
p,i,sdelphia capitalists are arranging
s,sr, a 100000 cotton factory at
Roanoke
circoit Court began at Charlestown
rne.day with Judge Beckwith on
the bench.
Island Park is being cleaned up and
800, IN order for the summer excursions
which will soon begin.
Twenty bicyclists from Philadelphia
80 making tour Of the Shenandoah
VALLEY on their wheels.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper con.
aimed an excellent likeness of Senator
=, ,i-,or this waak
The saturday evening concerts by the
Sbepherdstown COrnet Band are great
" enjoyed by everybody.
Ro1nd.trip tickets are being sold from
Sbepberdstown to Washington during
he national drill: for $3.50.
Inward of twenty liquor dealers Of
H,rerstown failed to procure license
nnder the high license Jaw.
Hagerstow II is to have bicycle meet
m June 18th. \ large number of Wis.,
ring wheelmen are expected.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in cir
colaiion in this community. Several
have been captured recently.
Wheat is beginning to head. Gener-
slly it looks right well, except corn
ground wheat, which is very poor.
Persons having lots at the cemetery
,bould have them cleared up and made
attractive looking by decoration day.
Some of the iron work for the bridge
Ia, been received, and it is of sufficient
weight to make the boys perspire freely.
The break OH the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal still impedes navigation. 1t will
probably be repaired by the last of this
week
The coat tail Irritation is the latest.
4 wrinkled coat tail, bearing dusty toe
marks, means: II have spoken to your
father"
Mr.. J. $. Fleming is selling the fur
NluIt Ielt ONSi AIoul Iuc SLoIh vi WI.
r. c. Hess. If you want to buy any, go
see him.
\ Louisiana man had to pay $1,000
for striking an editor. Won't some one
please hit us-anyone except John l..
Sullivan.
DR.. George Rueling, of Baltimore,
has successfully removed the cataract
from the left eye of Rev. DR.. Diehl, of
Frederick.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety Of the NJ. Z. Church South will
meet next Thursday at 4 p. m. at the
Parsonage.
Mr.. Joseph Hoover, for over thirty
years proprietor of the Hoover House
al Eagerstown, died on Sunday last,
aged eighty years.
\ horse dealer from Carlisle, Pa, has
been in this neighborhood the past week
buying horses. He took some fine ami
mails away with him.
We have received from the publishers
LlppincOtts Magazine for June. 1t is
fully up to its usual standard, which is
very high one indeed.
Passengers on the railroad trains pass
'ng through Shepherdstown eagerly
buy the strings of bass that are taken
out TO the station to be sold.
State Superintendent B. S. Morgan has
appointed Prof. j. r. Clifford, of Mar
unsburg, TO conduct the institute for
coIored teachers at Harper's Ferry.
Licentiate II. C.. V. Campbell has
been appointed by the Presbytery to
preach at IIarper's Ferry during his
summer vacation.-Gerardstopn Times.
The Changers of this county and
Berkeley will have a sort of revival next
Week. We hope they may fully organ
ze themselves, for in union there is
strength.
MeSSrs. Lock and Light, of Charles
town, are endeavoring to organize a
morse and stock market at that place,
similar to those held in the Virginia
towns on court days.
DR.. J. G. Gibson has started his soda
fountain, and the thirsty can supply
themselves with this delicious beverage
10 their hearts content. 1t is mighty
good Oh a warm day.
Walter Richard, a colored boy about
eighteen years old, was killed on the
railroad track at Martinsburg last Sat-
"rday. \ locomotive ran over him and
cut him all 10 pieces.
The Berryville Courier says that coll
urea man named George Hull caught in
Tue Shenandoah river a carp that
weighed 81 pounds. This beats George
V"oknsS big fish considerably.
Vol, Z. Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown,
Has received and accepted an invitation
10 become a member of the staff of Gen E.